Adding Google Adsense to Worpress without Plugin

I was using a wordpress google adsense plugin to add google ads to this blog before I saw something that eventually made me change my mind about adsense plugins. I finished writing a post that day, previewed it and saw one of my ad units in a color I never used. Knowing what could be wrong, I checked the publisher’s ID and saw it was totally different from mine! It was only then I realized I had been sharing my revenue with the plugin developer without my knowledge. It was at that very moment I decided not to use anymore wordpress google adsense plugin and tried inserting ad units manually.

Adding Google Ads below the Menu

- Go to Appearance > Template Editor

- Open header.php

- In the very last line, paste this code:

YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE

</div>

I used this to add a 728×90 leaderboard below the header, see that? You should note the following:

width:950px – this represents your blog width. You should increase or decrease this if there’s a need to do that.

background: #ffffff – this is the default background. If you have a dark you should change the color code to 000000

YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE – Paste your adsense code here

Adding Google Ads below Post Title

- Open single.php

- Locate where the post body starts. If your theme supports thumbnails, it shoul be just before this code:

<?php
if(has_post_thumbnail()) {

- Paste your adsense code just before this.

- If your theme dosn’t support thumbnails, you should paste your adsense code just before this:

<?php
the_content('');

Below is what it should look like:

Adding Google Ads Before Comments

Locate this code in single.php and add the code just before it:

<?php
if(comments_open( get_the_ID() )) {
comments_template('', true);

Adding Goolge Ads on the Sidebar(s)

- You don’t need to edit your template to do this, just go to Appearance > Widgets

- Drag Text widget to your desired position and paste your code inside it.

Google Adsense in Other Positions

If you’re not comfortable with editing your template, there’s a way out.Udegbunam Chukwudi of Patchworkoftips introduced a plugin to me. This plugin’s not an adsense plugin but rather a plugin to define how your post layout looks like. Post Layout allows you to use all sort of text, html, javascript anywhere in your posts and I recommend it.

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5 thoughts on “Adding Google Adsense to Worpress without any Plugin”

Thanks for this update, have been expecting a post on this earlier but had a work around pasting my ads below post. Geez most of this plugin developers are crooks!!! Myself never intended using a plugin for my ads before. Thanks once again for this update! Cheers

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Don Caprio on February 19, 2012 at 4:08 AM said:

You’re much welcome, Enchant.

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thanks for this post.
You are really the ‘don’

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thanks don, works perfect! but is there a way to align the ads below post title to left or right?
book on blogging recently posted..Understanding Blogging : What you need to know about the business

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Don Caprio on March 19, 2012 at 5:11 PM said:

If you want to wrap your text around the ad unit, use this:

<div style="float: left; padding: 5px; margin: 5px;">ADSENSE CODE HERE</div>

You can change float: left to float: right.

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Enchant on February 18, 2012 at 9:51 PM said:

Thanks for this update, have been expecting a post on this earlier but had a work around pasting my ads below post. Geez most of this plugin developers are crooks!!! Myself never intended using a plugin for my ads before. Thanks once again for this update! Cheers

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- Don Caprio on February 19, 2012 at 4:08 AM said:
  
  You’re much welcome, Enchant.
  
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sulaiman on March 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM said:

thanks for this post.
You are really the ‘don’

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book on blogging on March 19, 2012 at 4:12 PM said:

thanks don, works perfect! but is there a way to align the ads below post title to left or right?
book on blogging recently posted..Understanding Blogging : What you need to know about the business

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- Don Caprio on March 19, 2012 at 5:11 PM said:
  
  If you want to wrap your text around the ad unit, use this:
  
  <div style="float: left; padding: 5px; margin: 5px;">ADSENSE CODE HERE</div>
  
  You can change float: left to float: right.
  
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